We need to support our children and youth, as they navigate a difficult world.
Belief in oneself is the key.
Don’t Follow Anyone
Education
My New Novel: The Jack Code
AVAILABLE NOW on AMAZON and KINDLE
About the Book:
By 2029, the human race had lost its way. A warring consortium of billionaires using technology and politics to deplete resources and destroy the world many times over, had caused a global social and environmental disaster. Without work, people were destitute, losing all their possessions. Their mental health was suffering. Pollution and wars had rendered many places uninhabitable.
Society was rebelling with violent actions. The organised world of commerce, welfare and social cohesion had been destroyed. The Internet and social media had become useless appendages for fake information and propaganda.
Artificial Intelligence had been rapidly deployed to increase profits. However, without sufficient buyers, sales and profits had sharply declined. Those in power decided the solution was to decimate the population and to use only robotics and AI. Some billionaires wanted to control all digital devices, giving them total control over the commercial world, and sole power over a compliant population of slaves.
There was one problem . . . Leo Bensky’s AI system had secretly gone rogue and had come up with its own solution – to destroy most humans, leaving very few to do the physical work, with mindless bodies.
The overseers of the Universe knew that no human could stop this AI, and their Earth project was doomed. They sent Navix, a Universe Sentinel through a worm-hole, back to Earth, to stop the rogue AI and prevent any future conflict between humans and nature on Earth, by implanting a ‘reset patch’ into every human brain.
Navix was assigned two assistants, Jack (to design the interface), and Claire (initially in a supporting role). Jack was mentored by Navix on a remote island and trained on complex cosmic energy and computing systems. Claire was allowed to live a ‘normal’ family life, hidden from Navix until required.
This is their story . . . and maybe your future.
Available NOW on Amazon and Kindle . . . Please help to support my writing and music by purchasing a copy and leaving a review.
Symbolic Art Notation (international language)
The language that can be understood by any nationality at the same time.
Can be learnt in only 2 hours with a trained tutor.
International Language Invention
(Invented and developed by Stefan Nicholson in Tasmania, Australia)
March 2024 version Download a FREE COPY
My aim is to enable young children to learn how to communicate, using language and coding, before they start school—and during their primary years, without the mastery of talking, hearing, alphabets, words, spelling, pronunciation and formalized grammar.
Also, it is my aim to provide an easy communication tool for those people who have difficulty in learning – to develop their language brain pathway to accommodate change and benefit to their well-being.
Early communication can be fun as well as rewarding. It gives people an early start to be able to relate to others and progress onto formalized national and cultural languages.
Early education is a known processor for developing happier, confident and better rewarded adults.
Symbolic Art Notation can be learnt quickly, stimulating the brain, taken seriously and also as a game – for early mastery of our built-in language processor in the brain. The attached PDF book can be controlled by the embedded hyperlinks for ease of use.
Writing History
The Writing of History and Biographies
I am a great fan of Lewis Carroll – the mathematician who became a writer of children’s books and nonsense poetry. He observed the world around him, and applied logic to show that what we see, and our understanding of it, depends on your perspective. So too, with the writing of history: people, places and times.
Wearing his hat for a few minutes, I would have to conclude, that everything that is not most useful, is necessarily less useful) – an interesting question for this week. And yet, if anything is useful, it is just that – otherwise it would be useless. Say that fast, three times.
From historical evidence and sequence of events, a biographer presents the logic of the true event, and the story teller within, moulds this into the storyline – or it can work the other way around. Biography is the true story – as can be reasonably told based on fact and reasoning, notwithstanding that some biographers lie through their teeth.
So, how do you write about history?
- I have learnt that writing history demands the mastery of being able to tell a story, while simultaneously telling the truth in critical areas. False account and erroneous fact will be picked up by the critic. Reputation is closely linked to accuracy and meeting audience expectations. The facts of history may be consciously or unconsciously distorted by bias and/or malice – depending on the context of the events by the writer.
- Historical fiction is the incorporation of real historical events and figures, into a story line, whereby the setting must be true to the reality of the past. Sometimes the characters are themselves, and at other times, generally when sensitivities and legalities are required, the characters may have new names – or nick-names.
- A hard-nosed journalist will write the historical work according to the facts. The writer of a biography or autobiography will write a memoir or complete life-story, adding their own bias of thoughts and feelings. An historical fiction writer will use imagination and lateral thinking to work in with history, and build up an entertaining, action-packed story, using story board technique and character role play.
- I have learnt how to gather information from linked sources, as well as family and friends of family. We have each recounted the affect that events may have on the history of the family – notable migration, marriages, deaths and wars.
- Hidden stories, secret facts, and sensitivities within the family history, must be explored, debated and effectively dealt with to ensure a “reasonable” and ethical outcome for all parties. The possibility of sitting on a story, to synchronise the release of truth, while avoiding litigation and copyright issues, has been well rewarded many times. A good lawyer should always provide the ultimate advice on such matters.
- Visuals, choosing fiction writing and acknowledging the requirement to tell a story at its best, taught me that the story-line and audience participation is of prime importance. The audience becomes the writerly-reader – adding another dimension to the existing work. Visuals may be used to reduce some of the descriptive embellishment – allowing photos and graphics to “show” by example. This enhances the concise narrative and dialogue, to create a mood or historical atmosphere, so that the reader’s imagination is encouraged – rather than being lectured to.
- Finally, I have learnt through the experiences of fellow students, lecturers, authors and supporting readings, that there is both pleasure and pressure experienced by the historical writer. Whether you choose to write imaginative historical fiction, or engage in rigorous and academically precise researching for biography, or classical historical works, there are expectations of sensibility and much research of material.
Where to go from here with the writing of your next book?
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat
“I don’t much care where ——“, said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat
“—- so long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as an explanation.
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough”
(excerpt from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”)
I am going to have a long thoughtful walk, and plan out another interesting historical work. I lived the life of Adam Lindsay Gordon for long enough to share his experiences, when I wrote a poem for the Adam Lindsay Gordon Association – and came out of it a wiser man – and second prize winner.
Best regards to everyone. I hope to be reading your published works in the near future.
Getting: The RIGHT Job!
I’m not even going to mention COVID (Blast!!!)
Anyway, let’s get on with what this post is all about. It is about getting the RIGHT Job.
You may be lucky (or unlucky) to be:
- in a job
- out of a job
- fed up with your job, boss, low pay
- thinking your job is too bloody awful for words
- working too hard, too much, not enough
- getting paid too much (yeah right!)
Then do I have the information that may help you?
YES (How obvious was that little dangler)
And here it is:
I wrote most of this when I was working in a boutique Recruitment Agency in Perth (Premium Personnel with Mary McArdle). I regard working with Mary and her company one of life’s highlights, for their caring and nurturing approach to Personnel Management and people.
People need work to acquire some purpose in life. For some people, work that they enjoy is no longer just work. That is why it is important to try and find work that is enjoyable and stimulating.
Once your mind is set on what you want to do in life:
- Relax
- Listen to music
- Share a joke or just get together to have a coffee . . . or a beer/wine
- Eat something fresh(keep the dog and cat safe from harms way)
- Make a list – even a shopping list (then you can cross it all out, even if you don’t do things)
- Buy an over-sized pullover and pretend you have lost 20kg
- Ignore my frivolities during this post (I am a writer . . . that’s always my excuse)
Best wishes that you find your perfect job.
Stefan Nicholson (creatives) 